A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf

Nice condition copy of "A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf" by John Muir - RARE with original, un-clipped dust jacket (with the original $2.50 price on the front flap and spine). 1916 1st edition, 1st printing with pictorial front cover and the year "1916" printed on the title page; Houghton Mifflin Company; New York and Boston. Illustrated with black & white photographs and a map showing the route of Muir's walk to the gulf. Gilt top page edges. Please see the photos for the complete list of contents.
From the dust jacket: "John Muir's tramp from Indiana to Florida in 1867, and his trip thence to Cuba and finally to California, was Muir's first adventure into the world of his life work as a student of nature, and he described it in his journal with all the fresh enthusiasm of such an adventure at twenty-nine, and with good measure of the literary art that distinguishes his later writing. It was primarily a botanizing trip, but the journal is devoted mostly to the general aspects of the country and to experiences with more or less hospitable humans and woods that were always hospitable. The book will be warmly welcomed, because it is intensely interesting in itself as well as for the light it throws on the development of a great naturalist."
Condition:Small stain at the bottom of the front cover; sharp corners. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. Clean interior with only some light foxing on the copyright page, and a name/date (1916) written in pen and bookplate on the front pastedown. There are a couple small, light stains at the bottom edge of the text block. Overall the book is in very good condition. Soiling and staining to the dust jacket with tears along the perimeter (most notably at the top and bottom of the spine); the initials "aH"(?) are written twice on the rear flap; the jacket is un-clipped with the original $2.50 price on the front flap and spine.